Seongho Yi Ik's Writing on the Food Culture of the Joseon Dynasty - This is the Political Theory

 I am a poor man. How can I not be poor when I am poor, because wealth comes from hard work and hard work must be learned from childhood? It has no choice but to save use. You should not consume anything except that you cannot consume less by thinking enough in your life. If you think it is okay to spend even a penny lightly, it is not right. Even if it is a trifling thing, all the things that are used are money, so what kind of things do you think are worth it? There is one thing in the lyrics, and if you throw it away without waiting for it to be used, it will be to remove the things that heaven has given you, so the virtuous person is ashamed of it. Nothing is more important than grain. Everyone who has a mouth should eat two bowls of rice a day, but it is not obtained from their efforts, so it is worrisome that wealth is always lost due to lack.   What is the difference between insects and animals if you try to eat only your mouth instead of your hands being diligent? But a gentleman of the old days sat down to discuss ways and to stand up and do things, for it is the same as hardworking to produce grain, so even if he eats a lot, it will not be regrettable, but if he does not sit down and takes away what others have worked hard to produce My nature loves writing, and although I grumble all day long, every grain of rice is not made of my own strength, so why not be a worm between heaven and earth? Fortunately, there is a dairy industry of the previous generation, so they receive several islands and horses, and among them, they save food and do not eat much.   If you take a grain of rice out of a bowl, you can save two hops a day, ten families can save two thousand dollars of food, let alone one household's consumption, and one person's food accumulates in a year That useless consumption is a waste of every hop. What Koreans enjoy eating a lot is the best in the world. Recently, there was a person who was adrift and went to Yuguguk, and the people of that country laughed at him and said, "How poor would it be that your customs always scoop up rice with a large bowl and a spoon of iron?" Usually, they were adrift in our country by the former and already knew our customs well. When I was in the health service, the people on the beach ate enough that they wouldn't be hungry even if they shared one's food with three people, wouldn't the country be in disarray? When you get used to being full when you are young, your intestines gradually grow bigger and you feel hungry if you don't fill them up. If you gradually become a habit and feel hungry, some people will die of starvation. If it becomes a habit and the intestines can grow, it can become a habit and become small. Therefore, some people cut off grain very much and did not eat it, and it is the nature of the habit that the beasts of the mountains and fields do not die well even if ice and snow accumulate.   Even if you can't starve all the time, how can you reduce the excess? It is in the mind that it is difficult to endure a paraphernalia, especially a pear. Jung is not emaciated even though he only eats vegetables, but the increase in disease when a merchant stops eating meat is what made his desire sick. Because of this, people can't stand hunger now because they're not stable. What is the reason? This is because war has already become a habit of being distant and complacent. Before the Three Kingdoms, there was no complacency because the war continued, but hunger did not kill everyone. Since there is no time to farm, the clouds are empty, so even if you always wanted to be full, what could you have done? Now people call it breakfast when they wake up early and eat white porridge, and lunch when they eat it firmly in the middle of the day. In a rich house, they eat seven times a day, so alcohol and meat were abundant, and rare food and unique dishes were piled high, so they could feed 100 people even with the consumption of that day. How can the people's livelihood be in need, as the kyodo-il of the hajeung is like that of every house? It is lamentable. I don't think the quick co-efficacy of work is like enduring hunger and not eating. Starving once or twice does not necessarily lead to disease, and one or two loaves of rice increase according to starvation. How foolish and wise would it be to compare it to a man who could not bear a little hunger and fell out of rice and became sick first?   [Note C-001] Food: It means to eat less. 《類選》 卷五上 人事篇八 服食門.   [Note D-001] HaHaHaHaHaHaHaHaHaHaHaHaHaHaHaHaHaHaHaHaHaHaHa: His meditation was more than that of the prince, and he ate 10,000 jeon a day. the epigraph of the Sacred